Mohammed Al-Barghash is a prominent Bedoon community rights defender who is the founder of the National Bloc of Kuwaiti Bedoons. He has organised a number of events demanding radical solutions to the issues that the Bedoon community suffer from. In retaliation for his peaceful human rights activities, authorities have targeted him, including by raiding his home and arresting his wife in front of their children.

On 31 January 2024, he was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour on arbitrary charges of spreading fake news, harming the state’s reputation, and misusing a telephone device. On 12 December 2024, the Court of Cassation in Kuwait acquitted Al-Barghash of charges of spreading false news on social media about the authorities’ abuse of Bedoon citizens, and subsequently decided to overturn the three-year prison sentence against him, after he had been unjustly imprisoned for nearly a year.

In February 2024, while he was in prison for a separate case, the Court of First Instance initially acquitted him of the charges against him. However, the Central Apparatus decided to appeal this ruling, seeking to undermine him due to his public criticism of their work, which only served to perpetuate discrimination and deprivation against stateless citizens and their families.

On 14 May 2025, the Court of Appeals acquitted Al-Barghash, upholding the initial verdict. The charges against him included allegedly spreading false news and insulting and slandering employees of the Central Apparatus for Illegal Residents’ Affairs, which had initially filed the complaint against him.

On 11 June 2025, he appeared before the Public Prosecution. He was charged with state security offences, and detained in the Central Prison pending the start of his trial.

On 28 July 2025, the Criminal Court in Kuwait sentenced him to three years in prison after convicting him of broadcasting false news on his X account about the Central Agency for Illegal Residents’ Affairs.

The verdict stated that he allegedly “transmitted news that undermined the prestige of the state, and went beyond that to publishing and inciting public opinion… so he was rightly convicted of these two charges against him.”